Major Compatibility Bugfix Release

What's Changed

• Major compatibility fix for any PyNWB file generated with a Units table by @lawrence-mbf in #506
• add optogenetics tutorial by @bendichter in #497
• Create Project Actions by @mavaylon1 in #485
• Remove international datestring parsing for version checks by @lawrence-mbf in #509

Full Changelog: v2.6.0.1...v2.6.0.2

Major Bugfix Release For 2.6.0

Bug Fixes

• Fixes major validation error in #494 not allowing constrained sets across multiple types.
• Fix default subclass properties (#470)
• Empty data is defaults to H5S_NULL (#436)

Schema 2.6.0 Support Release

• Add support for NWB schema 2.6.0
• Add proper boolean support (#467) and other type-related fixes (#459, #463, #461)
• Fix compatibility with older MATLAB versions (#464)
• Clarify (#474) and update (#483) existing documentation.
• Add ROS3 reading documentation (#471)
• Various utility script fixes (#476)

Schema 2.5.0 Support Release

• Support Schema 2.5.0 (#435)
• Add New Dynamic Filters support for DataPipe objects (#428)
• Improve compatibility across MATLAB versions (#438)
• Improve tutorials, documentation, and discoverability thereof (#454, #451, #450, #443, #442, #441, #440, #439)
• Fix bug involving dynamic table validation with compound types (#433)
• Fix ambiguity in resolving data size (#431)

Usability and Bugfix Release

• Dynamic Table majorly overhauled (#394, #364, #385, #378, #366, #301)
• Reverted namespace changes back to a single install repository (#362)
• Added DataPipe slicing similar to DataStub slicing (#337)
• Major bugfixes
  • DataPipe size-related bugs (#404, #402)
  • Fixed a bug regarding property validation (#395)
  • Type checking fixes (#394, #389)
  • Major DataPipe fixes (#375)
• Updated tutorials
  • Dynamic filter usage (#419)
  • Dynamic Table usage (#320)
  • Fixed automatically generated documentation for properties (#391)
  • Defined new rules to clarify and simplify MATLAB<->HDF5 dimension mapping (#382)
• New logo

Schema 2.4.0 Release

• Includes compatibility with NWB Schema 2.4.0
• ObjectView, RegionVIew, and SoftLinks may now take generated object handles as an equivalent to full path references.

Bugfixes

Includes fixes for the Dynamic Table Indices, compound dataset support, and region/object reference stability thanks to better tests.

NWB Schema 2.3.0 Release

This release adds support NWB Schema version 2.3.0 support for MatNWB.

Schema changes can be found here: https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwb-schema/releases/tag/2.3.0

DataPipe Hotfix

the load() method on the datapipe was missing, breaking old code. The method has been reinstated and should function properly.

DynamicTable Extensions and Bugfixes

This release includes various bugfixes and performance fixes along with updated tutorial scripts.
Some (but not all) changes include:

• Updates to the Tutorials to use new DataStub features
• Fixes to the new DynamicTable getRow and addRow functions.
• Implement support for native MATLAB table objects when returned by getRow.